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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
Having run an over powered desktop to enable my gaming hobby, I have been toying with putting a "thin client" on my desk and my beefy rig in the living room. Computer performance has felt ~stagnant for the past decade. Given the n
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
The true real win of Rust. Knowing that you are incredibly likely to be able to compile it without any hoops. Random C/C++ project can still be a roll of the dice.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
It is a 12 year old legacy product. What specification exists other than, "Yesterday it did X when I clicked the button, but now it does not do that anymore."
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
Maybe there are some underlying architectural problems that need to be addressed, but it would be impossible make those changes from the current situation. It sounds like it is impossible to even know what code is live vs sitting on the ser
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
The system is an enormous black box and this at least tells you what N things were being manipulated at time in point X. Easy to setup and gives just a bit of peace and mind if the thing keels over one day.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
But shouldn't the product be created for the typical end user and not the 1% of cinemaphiles with a blessed setup? A pretty common complaint is that developers only test things on their latest generation i9, with unlimited ram, and 8k
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
>...by not doing a offset test or picking literally anything but a GM X-frame car (notoriously bad at overlap crashed, even by 1950s standards) So you are mad that they used a street legal car of the day to show that things have improved
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
What is the basic process for even starting a business? I have been kicking around an idea, and have thought about building a site. Strictly an off-hours, hobby amount of effort. I think I would be lucky to recoup DO hosting fees. Given tha
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
It did not seem like that was the message? More just identifying a point where needs are met?
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
My only complaint with it is this half-way json vs standard config file situation in which it finds itself. The documents push you to the json system, but most of the available documents are in the config system.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
What is a y equivalent gram of sweetener? A cursory look says a 12oz Coke Cola has 39grams of sugar while a Diet Coke has 0.2 grams of aspartame. How would you like it to be labelled?
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
How much generation capacity has been shutdown since then? With the seemingly endless installation of solar panels, I am surprised of the generation warnings.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
The book Windup Girl [0] is a SciFi novel set in a universe where climate change has completely altered the world. Fossil fuels are no longer available, so production is limited by genetically engineered products or human/animal labor
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
I am reminded of this article [0] on how NASA develops software. For things that absolutely must work, standard development practices do not apply. Real Engineers do not get to leave off testing for the big red emergency shut off button. [0
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
The pain of getting finance to approve recurring charges is quite real.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
The forced Snap-ification of Firefox pushed me from Ubuntu into another distro (Pop OS). A decade ago, Ubuntu offered real usability improvements (working Wifi, what?!) compared to the competition. Now, the various Linux flavors all work ap
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
I was curious, so as a point of comparison, the latest Common Crawl [0] is 3.1 billion pages and 370 TB uncompressed. I would presume that Bing would be significantly larger given commercial interests. [0]: https://commoncrawl.or
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
>For example, if I try to go to stadia.com right now from this mac/safari, I'll just get a page that says "Stadia requires Chrome", Not exactly encouraging that Googles cares about the service. Google IOT seemed like
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
The typical Amazon reviewer is unqualified to differentiate between shipping delays and product quality. No way I can have any expectations for subtle health changes.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
It does not even provide a `--sort-keys` option. That's like 90% of the the reason I ever lean on jq - to standardize API output for my human brain.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
I want to, really I do, but it feels like trading one devil for another. Email is by far the biggest albatross around my neck. To migrate email requires me to setup two different failure points: purchase a domain and a Fastmail-like service
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
While it does not address the root question, one benefit of sugar substitutes is that they are many times sweeter than sugar: stevia is 200-300x sweeter, resulting in less total mass consumed. My hopelessly-naive-because-biology thought is
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
I appreciate the explicitness, so indeed I would.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
Ah yes, the "It's still in Beta" defense.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
Last year, I was looking to upgrade my desktop. Found a review that was bemoaning a motherboard because it only had two M.2 slots. How many consumers use two, let alone would benefit from a third?
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
Still seems like it would require pretty good timing, even if the appropriate end was inevitable. Softbank has such enormous reserves that it can distort the market far from rationality.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
Maybe someone tried to resurrect the Search Timer code [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32295674
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
The rule is that there should never be non-food inside of food. Children or not, I think this is an excellent policy, and will gladly live a life without extra kitsch.
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
How many oil wells/barrels/square kilometers are currently dedicated to producing the world's jet fuel needs?
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by 41b696ef1113 4y ago
>...most residential systems don’t run at variable speeds. Any reason why? I would naively think that putting in a variable speed motor with a dial would be peanuts on the total cost?

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